3rd-4th October 2026 Beast, Feast & Bone Two days of Ancient Butchery, Wild cooking & Bone craft.. Full weekend payment.

Join Castle Hill Heritage Skills CIC at the Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne, Dorset BH21 5RP for a whole weekend 

Beast, Feast & Bone

Two days of Ancient Butchery, Wild cooking & Bone craft. Taught by Memma the Cavewoman and The Saxon Forager

Over two days you will learn how to butcher a deer from skinning, the joints of meat, how to tan the hide, and make tools with bones. You will also cook the deer with historic recipes including making jerky, a pot roast and sausages!

Bring a coolbox to take pieces of deer home with you.

You will be eating what you cook and can choose to stay the night on the communal sleeping bench in the Viking Longhouse.

The venue is The Ancient Technology Centre in Cranborne, Dorset. A site of replica historic buildings based on Iron Age, Roman, Anglo Saxon and Viking archaeological examples. You will be based in the Viking Longhouse for this course which also has the modern facilities of toilets and fully equipped kitchen!

Join a group of like-minded people to learn how to turn one of the UK's most under-used resources into food and other commodities. 

You will go home with the knowledge our ancestors learned, new friends and your cool bag of deer bits!

Prices and extra fees

Tickets are £235.00 for the weekend tutoring 

There are 14 places available for guests to sleep in the communal Viking Longhall. All bedding plus mattress must be brought with you if you select this option. There is a nominal fee for staying in the Longhall of £15. You could also select to stay in a campervan in the Ancient Technology Centre car park for £15. 

You may only stay overnight at the Ancient Technology Centre if you have purchased a ticket to the weekend course.

There are options through this ticket selling platform to pay in instalments and we hope that makes the courses accessible to all.

FAQs

You will have to arrange your own transport to and from the venue including overnight accommodation if necessary. The nearest train station is Salisbury and then a 30 minute car drive to the centre.  Please note it is only possible to stay overnight at the Ancient Technology Centre on Saturday 3rd October 2026. There are numerous camp sites, B&B's and Air BnB's available local to Cranbourne with a quick online search.

About Castle Hill Heritage Skills CIC

We are an inclusive not-for-profit company and want all of our attendees to have the same accessibility for the weekend of workshops. If you require anything to make your weekend more accessible please let our directors know at castlehillheritageskillscic@outlook.com and we will endeavour to work with the venue and tutors to meet your requirements.

All profit from the sales of these tickets goes straight back into the ongoing maintenance and building projects at the Ancient Technology Centre. Once you have visited you will realise what a special place this is and how we have to work to conserve it for the future generations of visitors.

Arrival time: 9.30 am on Saturday 3rd October 2026

Departure time: 4pm on Sunday 4th October 2026

Please do not come on site before the specified arrival time as tutors may not be on site.